Making Your Drawers Do More with Drawer Pulls
The trend in kitchen cabinets is to have drawers can cabinets that are user-friendly. Some of them do that by moving to meet you when you need to find things.
When it comes time to clean the house you don’t want to have to crawl on your hands and knees to look through the bottles that are all the way at the back of the cabinet as you search for the right cleaner. You’re already going to be tired before you even get start the cleaning task. But, if you had roll out trays in the bottom of your cabinets, this would no longer be a problem. The drawer pulls out and you’d be able to see everything and sort through all those bottles without getting a sore back or a work out.
Having cabinets where a drawer pulls out can also add more storage in this space. If you know how easily the drawer pulls out and that you will be able to see everything in the cabinet, you won’t be as worried about packing it all the way to the back.
When you consider adding sliding drawer pulls to your cabinets, you have two choices in mountings. They can either side mount, meaning there is a metal glide on each side of the drawer and your cabinet that the drawer moves along, or an under mount, meaning the glides are under the drawer. Generally both styles do the same thing, but if your kitchen storage space is at a premium, under mounted drawer pulls add up to one inch to the interior space width of your cabinet drawers.
Another consideration you need to make about these drawer pulls is how deep they should be. You can often get the sidewalls as short or as tall as you need them. If you have generally low sitting things, this may not matter. However, if you are planning on putting a lot of bottles of cleaning solution under the sink, or tall and heavy items like sodas and bottles of wine in a pantry, you will need taller sides on the drawers to keep all those bottles from tumbling every time the drawer pulls out. There are even specific trays made for those who have a lot of wine in the house, where the bottles can be put in a wine rack, side by side, and will not bang against one another when the drawer pulls open.
Some other popular uses of these kinds of moving cabinet pieces are for trashcans. Sometimes, before you know it, the trash can under the sink gets pretty heavy. Tugging it out at the wrong angle can mean a break in the bag, and a big mess. But if when the drawer pulls out the trashcan comes with it, it gives you a much better vantage point to deal with the trash bag. There are also some sliding trays that have been built to hold two trash bins, one for the regular trash, the other for recyclables.
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